The Florence Griswold Museum is an Art Museum at 96 Lyme Street in Old Lyme, Connecticut centered on the home of Florence Griswold (1850–1937), which was the center of the Old Lyme Art Colony, a main nexus of American Impressionism. The Museum is noted for its collection of American Impressionist paintings. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993. The site encompasses 12-acres of historic buildings, grounds, gardens, and walking trails.
Florence Griswold House in 2014
Summer Evening, oil on canvas, Childe Hassam, 1886
East Rock, New Haven, oil on canvas, John Ferguson Weir, 1901
Thawing Brook, oil on canvas, Williard Metcalf, 1911
Old Lyme is a coastal town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, bounded on the west by the Connecticut River, on the south by the Long Island Sound, on the east by the town of East Lyme, and on the north by the town of Lyme. The town is part of the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region.
View of the Connecticut River in Old Lyme near its mouth at Long Island Sound
Railroad Bridge over the Four Mile River's mouth, which connects East Lyme to Old Lyme's easternmost shoreline
Church at Old Lyme, oil on canvas, Childe Hassam, 1905
Barefoot tourists
